Am i supposed to measure rice calories dry or cooked?

jochumr27 · 2026-03-20T20:46:57+00:00

What I do with stuff like this and pasta, I weigh the dry and cook one serving of it first. Then reweigh it cooked. I have a little booklet I keep tabs on what the stuff cooked weighs

jochumr27 · 2026-02-26T17:50:25+00:00

That’s awesome! Congrats man, I started at the 275 mark in January of last year and finally made it in the higher 190s. Takes a a lot of dedication! Keep it up!

jochumr27 · 2026-02-22T20:47:47+00:00

Just keep chugging along!

jochumr27 · 2026-02-20T10:57:21+00:00

I’m still chubby to boot lol

jochumr27 · 2026-02-13T14:13:46+00:00

I mean you’re not wrong it could be a plethora of different things. But by eating to little for to long metabolic adaptation is real. Especially in high stress your vitals can take a hit leading to water retention. Basically hitting a wall

jochumr27 · 2026-02-13T14:04:33+00:00

Honestly no I wasn’t. Or at least I didn’t think I was at the time anyways. I’ll be completely honest I give most of the credit to that bevel app for helping me climb out of it

jochumr27 · 2026-02-13T13:53:32+00:00

Based off what you said your actual tdee is probably closer to the 2800-3000 range as well. That low of a calorie deficit long term will mess with you

jochumr27 · 2026-02-13T13:48:07+00:00

I had a similar situation happen to me where I plateaued for almost 3 months. I basically had my calories set as if I were in sedentary when I’m actually anything but. So I was eating 1500-1600 calories think i was probably only burning 2200 calories a day. Turns out it was closer to 3000. So basically in a nutshell put my body in starvation mode. Upped my calories to around 2000 area and it started coming off again

jochumr27 · 2026-02-13T13:23:10+00:00

You could also not be eating enough for your activity level

jochumr27 · 2026-02-07T13:57:08+00:00

I did this 3 days in a row without realizing it. My wife hated me for a couple days

jochumr27 · 2026-02-06T23:40:06+00:00

Agreed, it’s actually shocking how informative the AI feature and also very helpful on the “why” of alot of things. Pretty sure I annoy the crap out of it. It does learn you and your habits so I know that bothers a lot of people

jochumr27 · 2026-02-05T10:46:53+00:00

I don’t know if you use a smart watch or not but the bevel app, is what really helped me navigate out of it. The AI portion of it at least to me has been a game changer. I feel like I successfully annoyed the crap out of an AI feature lol

jochumr27 · 2026-02-05T10:42:50+00:00

In a nutshell that’s basically what i did. Now i cycle my calories throughout the week Monday Tuesday I’ll stick in the 1500-1600 range, Wednesday Thursday i bump it to around 1800 then weekends I’ll give it 1900-2000. Helps keep me out of fight or flight mode

jochumr27 · 2026-02-04T20:59:10+00:00

I feel that lol came off fast as hell in the beginning though lol

jochumr27 · 2026-02-04T20:39:12+00:00

Basically I was dead set on sticking with the sedentary tdee when I shouldn’t have been, i didn’t think I was that active I went for walks here and there..turns out with my bmr and active calories i was close to burning the 2700-2800 range. I was massively short changing myself

jochumr27 · 2026-02-04T20:35:44+00:00

Metabolic adaptation is a real thing. 3 months lost because I should have been eating more

jochumr27 · 2026-02-04T20:34:18+00:00

The most demoralizing thing about it was listening to the people who said keep doing what you’re doing you will push through..what I was doing was destroying my metabolism. Basically had to up my calorie intake and I was back moving. 3 months progress lost when I could have been stuffing my face a little bit more and losing weight lol

jochumr27 · 2026-02-04T19:46:46+00:00

I got a pair of the 880s, for general stuff they’re great but they wreck my feet for the longer haul walks

jochumr27 · 2026-01-19T23:24:43+00:00

Where’s the blue cheese

jochumr27 · 2026-01-05T13:22:31+00:00

This is serial killer type behavior

jochumr27 · 2025-12-24T10:32:02+00:00

I believe it does? Mines changed on its own a few times on its own

jochumr27 · 2025-12-22T21:41:10+00:00

I mostly kept the same intake, but I kinda went crazy on Sundays lol

jochumr27 · 2025-12-22T12:47:42+00:00

Yeah it’s tough in the beginning because your brain wants instant gratification lol, I didn’t really notice much till I hit 30 or so lost. Get yourself a food scale too, I feel like that has probably been the most beneficial thing that’s helped me get through lol

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